Judicial Conference asks U.S. House to consider impeaching U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr (E.D. La.)
How Appealing links to the story and several resources. The Time-Picayune reports:
. . . There was substantial evidence that Porteous committed perjury by signing false financial disclosures to conceal cash and things of value that he solicited from lawyers appearing before him, the panel found.
Porteous repeatedly committed perjury during his personal bankruptcy case to obtain a discharge of debts “while continuing his lifestyle at the expense of his creditors,” the certificate says.
He also systematically concealed from litigants and the public financial transactions by filing false financial disclosures about his income, gifts, loans and liabilities, the panel found . . .